Fritz Klatte
Fritz Klatte (born March 28, 1880 in Diepholz , Germany ; † February 11, 1934 in Klagenfurt , Austria ) was a German chemist and industrial developer (together with the chemists Emil Zacharias and Adolf Rollett ) of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), on which he had a German patent (GP 281687 1912) for processing from ethine .
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) or vinyl chloride was found by the French physicist Henri Victor Regnault . Klatte invented the production process, but was never able to successfully market it commercially. Klatte is sometimes mistakenly seen as the inventor of PVC.
Klatte completed a pharmacist training in Berlin from 1896 and studied pharmacy and chemistry from 1902. He received his doctorate in Tübingen in 1907 (About the Benzoylacetonoxalester). In 1908 he became a chemist at Griesheim-Elektron in Frankfurt am Main, which later belonged to Hoechst. There he was looking for a replacement for celluloid for the production of films, combs, buttons and other things. In 1912 he produced vinyl chloride , the raw material for PVC, made from acetylene and hydrochloric acid, and in 1913, together with his colleagues Emil Zacharias and Adolf Rollett, found a technical production process for PVC, for which they applied for a patent. But there was no market-ready product and the Griesheim company gave up the patents in 1926 so that other companies could work on further development. BASF was successful in 1934 and IG-Farben (to which BASF and Griesheim belonged) started PVC production in 1935.
He fell ill with tuberculosis in 1917 and died of the consequences of this disease in a sanatorium in Klagenfurt in 1934.
Web links
- Deutsches Kunststoff-Museum: Inventor: Fritz Klatte, 1913 - PVC (CV with photo)
- plasticker.de
- wdr: www.planet-schule.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klatte, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Diepholz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1934 |
| Place of death | Klagenfurt |